St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-05

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DIR. S. S. KILVINGTON,
since his appointment as health officer,
known. He started in by fumigating
the room he was given at the city hall,
notified everybody to clean up their
back yards, arrested those who
didn't or frightened them into obedience.
He has hustled up the council committee
on health and hospitals, established
dumping grounds, printed suggestions
in the papers, and made such cOmmO-
ton on the subject of sanitary cleanli-
ness as Minneapolis has never before
experienced. He is another one of that
distinguished body of statesmen and
philosophers composing the Mil
waukee d. Rod and Gun club,
in which he holds by general
consent the offices of the general super
intendent of hunting, chairman of the
committee ON refreshments and master
of ceremonies. 1t is his efficiency in
the latter capacity which has made the
tours of the club across the plains of
Dakota the most successful hunting eX-
peditiOnS ever known in the history of
the country. He has even been
known to sleep in the ice
box that his berth might be
given up to some tired and WORKOUT
victim of railroad euchre. The shite-
poke stew he once concOcted will be re-
membered by the epicures who par
ticipated in the feast to their dying day.
In distributing the tons of game which
expeditions he has never failed tore
member his lady friends, and is
consequently favOrite with the.
fair sex. One of his characteristics is a
passionate love for dogs, and he is al
ways followed by a canine Salvation
army in his walks about the city. When
he offered to donate his thoroughbred,
stem-winder setter Roy and his MORE
antique water spaniel Prince as prizes
to be shot for by the Minneapolis
Gun club the winners refused
to take the dogs, knowing the sacrifice
on the doctors part was too great to be
asked. The doctor was at one time
soldier in the service of her majesty the
Queen of England, and wears upon his
vest several decorations presented in
token. of his valOr in defendingithe
province of Manitoba from the infpads
of New England excursion parties.
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sACKETT AND THE SEA SERPENT,
Little did the quiet throngS of specta-
tors who lounged in the Nicollet lobby
last night, and who witnessed the de-
parture of j. E. Sackett and E. r. Rich
ards on a finding expedition to Min
netonka, dream of the thrilling expert
ences of the above-named gentlemen
near WayZata at 1:30 this morn
ing. Mr.. Sackett is the well-known
amusement manager, and Mr.. Richards
his outing. Mr.. Sackett had explained
to party of friends method of fishing
he had learned in New Zealand, and
which he intended to try at Gray's lake.
1t was that of charming the fish to the
surface by means of lights, songs and
iodOphone and then beating their brains
out with bOomerangs. Of course,
several friends pOoh-poohed the idea.
but when Mr.. Sackett triIled out
i'll Soft AndaluSian notes a weird Maori
snake song, it was unanimously agreed
that it would raise any sort of fish from
its spanning bed, and possibly the devil
fish. Last night, it seems, from the
account telegraphed the GLOBE by the
tleman boarded Skiff, accompanied by
Old Perry, the fisherman, and with
full moon overhead, pulled out into the
placid waters of the lake. The boat
contained, beside the three persons
named, the following:
Ten male and female boomerangs, with
curved spines; 3 weinerwursts; jack strap
for tying fish; 10 live frogs; 3 packages of
''Old Judge cigarettes; l barometer; steth-
escope; 1000 dodgers advertising the Dime
museum; copies of the song when the
Rubens Nest Again Roman toga, for pic
hooks, chippy food, blue fire and other Ct
ceteras. 4
1t seems that all went we'll until the
boat reached deep water, when Mr..
Sackett announced his determination of
trying his experiment. After getting
the exact longitude and latitude the
boat was anchored and Mr.. Sackett rose
in the bow and took his boomerangs i'm
hand. Clearing his throat he COM
menced to sing ''Sally in Our Alley"
Meanwhile Mr.. Richards burned GUAM
tity of blue light over the stern
and the fishermen were rewarded
by having several suckers and
bass leap to the surface. These were
quickly dispatched by Mr.. Sackett beat
ing their brains out with his boomerang.
MesSrS. Richards and Perry were
charmed with their success, but the in
defatigable Sackett ordered the oars
man to pull for deeper water. He
wanted larger game. Commanding 81
lence, he commenced to sing white
Wings" Suddenly the blue fire burnt
Out vi tilc WdtclS, dllu dU SJildt
instant Perry exclaimed my God, the
sea serpent" And sure enough a
monster arose near the boat, evidently
the same one that has been previously
described in the GLOBE. Richards now
affrighted, yelled to Sackett to throw the
bOomerangs, but although they were
thrown with unerring aim they failed to
stop the progress of the monsterwho
kept nearing the boat. Cigarettes. fibarI
ometers, dodgers, and everything was
thrown at the monster, who now seemed
bent on destroying boat and occupants
But Mr.. Sackett, with great presence of
mind, unscrewed his cork leg and hold
ing this in hand deity inserted it in the
monsters jaws, which clamped tight,
over the false limb, and soon the deem
water serpent was hors de combat A
rope was secured and after her
culean efforts the monster was
beached on the shore near the
Manitoba depot, where he now, laws.
Measurements made late last night
show the serpent to be eighteen feetiin
length, three feet over dOrnal fin. 1t
has head like dog, with the charac-
teristics of the Squid. AT late hour a
GLOBE reporter interviewed Percy
Weadon at his residence, as to whether
he had received any word from the
gentlemen, but he answered i'm the
negative. ''Both are teetotallers. how.
ever" said he.
Auditor COndit has shaved his luxur-
iOus whiSkers, and his own brother
passed him by without recognition.